Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced the State Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley who, on the day Congress convened, obtained similar licenses to export $4,500,000 of similar second-hand war goods to Spain via Mexico: 4) Felix Gordon de Ordaz, Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, who was flying...
...while Harvard has been pre-eminent for many decades for the excellence of her legal instruction, she can no longer lay claim to a position of unrivalled superiority. Both Yale and Columbia have made justifiable names for themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time...
...Kettleman hills, all three women rushed for the courts. Wife No. 3 asked that a worthless property settlement be set aside, claiming her husband died intestate. Wife No. 2 suddenly produced a will which she claimed left all to her two children. It remained for Wife No. 1, to lay down what looked like the ace. She never knew that she had been divorced. On the ground that papers were never served, she had the Goldfield decree vacated. In the eyes of Nevada law, Wife No. 2 and Wife No. 3 had never been wives...
...Exploration Co., remarked with restraint that the concession was an opportunity to spend a lot of money. Said cautious President Lovejoy: "This is a concession for exploration as well as for exploitation. . . . No oil testings have ever been made. ... If the agreement goes through it will take years to lay out the territory and test for oil.'' This temperate talk notwithstanding, two facts remained clear, 1) A country famed since the dawn of history for resist ance to imperial exploitation or more recently high-powered corporate enterprise had accepted an arrangement which in other countries of the Near...
...Wilkie can disguise this fact. True, the most notable of Frank's attempted reforms, the Experimental College, failed to achieve the success originally expected. But a man should not be pilloried for the failure of an experiment, especially when the University profited by the lessons learned. The attempts of lay Regents to prove that the University has slipped do not ring true when confronted by the unanimous contrary opinion of competent educators...